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John Monson
Associate Professor of Archaeology
On faculty since 1997

Office: BGC 220
Phone: (630) 752-5706
John.Monson@wheaton.edu
Education

Ph.D. Harvard University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, 1999

M.A. Harvard University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, 1993

M.A. Institute of Holy Land Studies in Jerusalem, Israel, 1988

B.A. Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois, 1984
 
Professional and Personal Interests
The years of my youth and my first graduate degree were lived in Jerusalem, Israel. This background cultivated a strong interest in the Bible, Near Eastern culture ancient and modern, and in the integration of ancient texts and artifacts. The years in Jerusalem also afforded many opportunities to reflect upon the land as the stage of biblical history. George Adam Smith said it best in his Historical Geography of the Holy Land (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1896:12): "How could such a people (Israel) be better framed than. . . settlement on a land both near to, and aloof from, the main streams of human life, where they could be at once the spectators of history and yet not its victims, where they could at once enjoy personal communion with God and yet have some idea also of His providence of the whole world; where they could at once gather up the experience of the ancient world and break with it into the modern?"

Please visit my home page. Or you may wish to visit the Wheaton in the Holy Lands page.



Courses Taught
 
  • ARCH 211 Old Testament Archaeology
  • ARCH 213 New Testament Archaeology
  • ARCH 321 Ancient Palestine
  • ARCH 362 Assyria and Babylonia
  • ARCH 412 Archaeology and the Prophets
  • ARCH 412 Archaeology of Iron Age Israel
  • ARCH 312 Biblical Art and Symbolism
  • ARCH 521 Advanced Archaeology and the Old Testament
  • BITH/ARCH 334 Historical Geography
  • BITH 342 David and Kingship
  • BITH/ARCH 411 Jerusalem, The Holy City
  • BITH/ARCH 412 Archaeology of Jerusalem
  • BITH 211 Old Testament Literature and Interpretation
  • BITH 412 Dead Sea Scrolls
  • BITH 537 History of Israel I
  • BITH 538 History of Israel II
  • HEBR 301/302 Introductory Biblical Hebrew
  • HEBR 401 Intermediate Biblical Hebrew
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Membership in Professional Societies
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Research
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Publications and Presentations

"Architecture." Entry in the Dictionary of the Pentateuch, ed. David W. Baker. In progress.

"A 10th Century 'Gateway to Heaven.'" Paper delivered to the "Jerusalem in the Bible and Archaeology Consultation" at the national meetings of the Society of Biblical Literature/American Academy of Religion, Boston, MA. November 20, 1999.

"The Temple of Solomon: Heart of Jerusalem." Pp. 1-22 in Zion, City of Our God, eds. Richard S. Hess and Gordon J. Wenham. Grand Rapids, MI/Cambridge, UK: Eerdmans. 1999.

"The Temples of Ain Dara and Jerusalem." Text, Artifact, and Image: Revealing Ancient Israelite Religion, eds. G. Beckman and Th. Lewis. Yale: Yale University Press. Forthcoming.

"Solomon's Temple Reconsidered." Biblical Archaeology Review. Requested by editor during summer of 1998. Forthcoming.

Review of Ben-Tor, Amnon, et. al., Hazor V: An Account of the Fifth Season of Excavation, 1968. Religious Studies Review, 1998.

"The Ain Dara Temple and the Jerusalem Temple." Paper delivered at the Gruss colloquium in Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania and University Museum. Conference entitled "Text, Artifact, and Image: Revealing Ancient Israelite Religion."

"The Temple of Solomon and the Temple of Ain Dara, Syria," Qadmoniot 29:33-38 1996. (Hebrew)

Review of Y. Hirschfeld, The Palestinian Dwelling in the Late Roman-Byzantine Period. Religious Studies Review, 1998.

Addtional publications